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...flooded with bargain-crazed shoppers. “Black Friday for us isn’t the ‘Black’ Friday that Macy’s or Target experience,” said Bill Diamond, the general manager of Curious George Goes to WordsWorth, a children’s books and toys shop in the Square. Diamond nevertheless said he expects to see increased business in the weeks leading up to Christmas. Michelle Benoit, a manager at ALDO, said students, who form one-third of the store’s customer base, leave town for Thanksgiving weekend...
...dramatic landscape of England's Lake District has long acted as muse to artist and writer alike. It's easy to imagine nature enthusiast and future [an error occurred while processing this directive] poet laureate William Wordsworth getting inspired during his visits in the early 19th century, rent in hand, to the home of his landlord on Lake Windermere's northeastern shore. That same house is now the Samling, an 11-bedroom hotel nestled in 27 hectares of pastures and woodland with gorgeous views of the lake. No wonder the Georgian house is occasionally hired out exclusively (and discreetly...
...high-pitched voice is soothing, his awkward hand gestures are graceful, and his long fingernails are quite useful as pointers. But in the interim, you may be a bit distracted and freaked out. Give Albright a chance, and you'll soon understand his dense but interesting lectures about Swift, Wordsworth, Keats, Woolf, and Beckett, among others. The course tries to cover a lot of ground; many students give up when assigned a 500-page George Eliot novel in one week. However, what you do choose to read, you'll enjoy...
...made Moi very nervous. Ngugi first started writing in the '60s, under his original name, James Ngugi, and in English: the leftover colonial language still revered in parts of today's Africa, where schools punish students for speaking African languages. Pushing aside the influences of his childhood curriculum - William Wordsworth, Jane Austen, T.S. Eliot - he instead dipped into Africa's storytelling history. "The tradition from which I came was that of the realism of the 19th-century English novel," he says. "It was very limiting in terms of imagination, time and space. The folkloric tradition frees the imagination - humans talk...
...Brattle Theatre has avoided the fate of other Harvard Square landmarks—such as Tasty Diner and WordsWorth Books—that have shuttered their doors in recent years...